Short Story Unit Topics:

Author of Short Story: Biography, most important works, important themes/topics commonly treated by the author
Topical:

• Cask Of Amontillado
  • Carnaval
  • Catacombs
• Sound of Thunder
  • Is time travel possible?
  • Technology innovations of the future: Good or bad?- Cloning
  • Technology innovations of the future: Good or bad?- Drones
  • Technology innovations of the future: Good or bad? - other topics?
• The Most Dangerous Game
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• If I Forget thee oh Earth ( Pair with Silent Springexcerpt in text book?)
  • Cause/effect environmental issues: Exxon Valdez
  • Cause/effect environmental issues: BP Gulf
  • The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
• Rules of the Game
  • What is "endgame" in chess?
  • Describe Chinatown immigrant culture

Long Way Gone

• Blood Diamonds
• Civil War in Sierra Leone
• RUF
• Child Soldiers:Uganda
• Child Soldiers: Phillipines
• Child Soldiers: Colombia
• Child Soldiers : Sri Lanka
• Child Soldiers: ??
• Hip hop music and social change
• What is PTSD in children
• PTSD and Rehabilitation
• Who joins gangs and why do they join them
• Emmanuel Jal: Somali ex Child Soldier now a hip hop artist
• Genocide
• KONY
• Lord's Resistance Army

• Kony
• Lords Resistance
• Musicicians working for social change